Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Weather Globe My toy is one that is aimed at the Sharper Image shopper or the Brookstone shopper; A sophisticated touchscreen globe that works much like the touchscreen technology on our cellular phones. The globe will also have zooming capabilities in order to view cities more closely or various landmarks. The purpose of my design is to incorporate the satellite views only space can offer into the home, providing a weather account that is in real time. This gives the user a chance to experience cloud cover, storms and volcanoes as they are manifesting on the Earth. When a country, region or city is selected, a display appears floating on the globe itself. it will be in yellow as to be easily distinguished from the landscape. The screen will show temperature, pressure, humidity, UV index, wind speeds, Moon phases, sunrise/sunset time, chance of rain and storm alerts in the area of hurricanes, tsunamis etc. It will be programmable in Metric or the U.S. degree system. It easily connects to internet via an Ethernet chord and has a power supply. Both of these chords are housed in the Lucite base, a carved hole threading them out of the globe and the base. The globe has a circumference of two feet and the base a two inch Lucite frame, as to not take away from the globe itself, as if it were floating. The stand height will be roughly five inches, and the globe will be adhered to the frame via spinning axles screwed into the Lucite frame.

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